Just put a blank key into the lock and hit with a rubber or nylon hammer. If you do not have a blank use a old key or follower or a roll of pennies.

Note: this technique will not work on newer F series Key-in-knobs.

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Not this particular attack but pretty much every knoblock can be bypassed one way or another. Schlage F handles with a wire through the knob release hole, Kwikset with the Quickpull, Weslock with a thin metal shim and all the cheap Chinese ones like Defiant through the keyhole.turning the spindle at the back of the tailpiece. Even higher security ones can be opened by wedging the door with an air cussion (as well as deadbolts), then throwing the bolt with the shrum tool or a mica card. I will give this a try as soon as I am back from vacation.

Nope Jeff. He is making the world safer. Manufactures freak and fix their crap once huge flaws are exposed otherwise they don’t. I am a locksmith so I have a great interest in learning of locks that can be opened by anyone in seconds. Do people who point out flaws in computer code make the world better or worse?

Read the full video description! It would have saved me a lot of time messing with the new version this doesn’t work on. Sadly though Schlage F series locks offer very little security. The stories I could tell.